The Year of Giving and Receiving (Okay, Mostly Receiving)

The Year of Giving and Receiving (Okay, Mostly Receiving)

When we can meet life with an open heart, receiving becomes indistinguishable from giving and we become conduits of grace. —Mark Nepo, Seven Thousand Ways to Listen Late last year, fresh off my yoga teacher training and full of good intentions, I decided to declare...
Embrace the Open Window

Embrace the Open Window

“When the Lord closes a door, somewhere He opens a window.” —Julie Andrews as Maria von Trapp in The Sound of Music “Keep passing the open windows.” —John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire The Bible and the Buddha aside, sometimes I think that all you really need to...
Letting Go of Shakespeare

Letting Go of Shakespeare

“If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.” —William Shakespeare In the past two weeks I haven’t done very much. I haven’t written a blog. I haven’t been to a yoga class. I haven’t walked through the bogs or watched What Not to Wear or called my mother, all tactics...

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